School: Tuairín Chathail (B.) (roll number 10392)
- Location:
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0452, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)(Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry) and also in Ath-na-blath. (Kilcummin. Kerry.)During the severe thunderstorm in the second week of August very heavy rain fell in some districts. The rivers over-flowed their banks, and in many places cattle and pigs were drowned In Tralee the streets got flooded in the night-time, and it burst into all the buildings. In private houses there was great damage done to carpets and furniture, and store-keepers lost heavily where the floods damaged the goods. But there were no lives lost. About four years ago we had a very heavy snowfall. The snow kept falling for about fourteen hours, and in sheltered places it was seven or eight high.
- Collector
- Tom Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
